So much in September
Sound Walk September has come around! The deadline for having your sound walk considered for the SWS Awards, the end of the month, is approaching. Submit your work today, and have your work join the nearly 60 pieces that have been submitted, so far.
Work produced in 2023 and 2024 is eligible. Don't leave submission to the last minute, and give our amazing Online Jury some breathing space.
Prize money for our awards depends on you, our supporting members. And, earlier this year, we reached the threshold for doubling the prize money to 500 euros for the winning piece. Our next step is to move to 1000 euros for the winner, but we need you to make that happen.
If you've stuck with us over the last few years, you'll have seen that we do not have as many events scheduled for this September as we might have had in the past. Yet, several events stand out.
On September 17, as part of WALC, the cross-Europe collaboration we are a part of, we're co-hosting an online seminar on Walking as a community based art practice. It's online and free to attend.
From September 25 to 29, our good friends at Cona are organising To)pot, a festival of radical soundwalks, in the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana. In-person and free.
Then, on September 27, it's the World Wide Wander, with free events online and in-person, around the world, where you can explore physical space and discover something new about yourself.
You might be short on time for this year's award, if you still need to start on implementing your next great idea for putting together an innovative sound walk. Either way, remember that we got a (somewhat dated) overview of tools at your disposal for creating sound walks.
One that has stuck around for a long time, and is also one of our supporters, is Echoes. Founded, and still run, by Josh Kopeček, Josh this week talked about the exciting new direction he wants to take Echoes in, supporting the platform through a community-based framework.
One collaborative work which I myself recently wrapped up goes back to 2020, and is a reimagining of 30 Days of Walking, a project which, at the start of the pandemic, brought together a few dozen creators. It constructed a continuous sound walk that covered the whole of September 2020.
At the time, the project had its own website, which has now been retired. Instead, the resulting work is now available through a YouTube playlist, but also as a single 14.5 hour video on Rumble.
Next, I'm getting ready for a whirlwind tour of Europe. Perhaps I'll see you in Greece, at my World Wide Wander, or at WALK21 in Portugal, where I'm hosting a workshop, or perhaps in Belgium, where WALC is meeting to prepare for 2025.
Keep walking!
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2024-09-10 18:00
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“a hypnotic, sensual tapestry” Elizabeth Mahoney writing about Diane’s Lonely Nights radio feature in The Guardian “a superbly crafted evocation of a way of life lost – but not entirely forgotten” the Radio Times on Diane’s experimental audio documentary feature Ghost Town (for Between the Ears, BBC Radio 3) “She is a... Keep reading
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2024-09-28 16:30
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Our annual writing competition drew scores of entries, join the Showcase event to listen to the shortlisted authors reading their work, and with them find out who are the winners! Keep reading
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Latest podcast episodes
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Join @thebuzzknight for this classic replay with Brittany Spanos from Rolling Stone Magazine. She is a senior writer for the magazine and also the co-host Rolling S... Start listening
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As summer turns into fall, Libby reflects on the changing season by listening to what her body is telling her on a recent morning walk. Keep in touch: https://www.t... Start listening
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Matthew’s guest on this month’s show is the wonderful Jenny Sturgeon talking about her epic 864km walk from the Scottish borders to Cape Wrath – and sharing the evo... Start listening
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Join @thebuzzknight for this episode with Daryl Hall, part of the legendary duo Hall and Oates and the creator and star of the show “Live from Daryl’s House”. For s... Start listening
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Join @thebuzzknight for this classic replay with Phil Rosenthal. He is the creator of the hit TV show “Everybody Loves Raymond” and the star of The Netflix series “... Start listening
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New walking pieces
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Explore the new gardens of the Natural History Museum listening to poems and to scientists, Museum staff and other experts talk about the garden's design and the stories held within. Keep reading
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A sonic trek through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel capturing all the characteristics and activity along its entire length, from the south entrance, and exiting at the north side. Keep reading
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This sound walk explores plant-human relations through encounters with planty beings on a route of your choice. It reveals the impact of colonial legacies on our relations with plants and proposes new forms of collaboration between plants and people. Keep reading
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A dawn chorus walk from Ranters Lodge along coastal paths beside Chesil Beach, to and around Tout Quarry Sculpture Park and Nature Reserve on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. Sounds of the sea below the cliffs and bird life encountered in the quarry. Keep reading
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Video work is based on the intersection of new media, CGI animation, topography, live paths and physical movement in digital space. It's walking experience in the forest of Freising, Germany. The artist uses gps tracking of her walking experience to create this piece of art. Keep reading
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‘Along The Lines’ is an immersive mobile soundwalk exploring Brighton’s laundry heritage. Designed and recorded by sound artist and researcher Anna Celeste Edmonds, in collaboration with charity Quiet Down. This project was funded by the Heritage Lottery, and is accessible on Echoes and the artist’s website. Keep reading
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The Chalk Path/Le Chemin de Craie is a bilingual self-guided audio walk through Folkestone Warren and Cap Blanc Nez that invites you to walk down through deep time, to reflect on the past and reimagine the future, considering the enormity of time and it’s relationship to our own human existence and impact. Keep reading
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Upcoming events
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2024-09-08 12:00
· Ealing Broadway Station, Greater, London, UK
September is the month when the artists and painters of the Borough of Ealing put on their Art Trail and invite you to their studios and galleries to see and buy th... Keep reading
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2024-09-10 18:00
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“a hypnotic, sensual tapestry” Elizabeth Mahoney writing about Diane’s Lonely Nights radio feature in The Guardian “a superbly crafted evocation of a way of life l... Keep reading
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2024-09-12 09:00
· Bridgend Farmhouse Cafe, Old Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh, UK
5 Edinburgh-based walks in Craigmillar Castle Park. We’ll be walking together in friendly conversation, enjoying moments of silence and learning more about the ecol... Keep reading
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From our network
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More than ten years ago I started Echoes as a pet project to deliver a single sound walk. Since then it’s been a rollercoaster, and we’re now at a major crossroads.... Keep reading
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For Manju and me, the short period of time when she has to grind something in the mixer–grinder is difficult. The noise interrupts the thread of our conversation, m... Keep reading
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Women Walking the City at Night – a collective walk that drifts with the Harvest Moon. We will be exploring our relationship with the city, at night, as women. Wedn... Keep reading
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Granton Wasteland, a walk with poetry - from Granton Harbour to Granton Square. Wednesday 25 September 2024, 5-6.30pm. Meeting at Harbour Connections, 13 Hesperus C... Keep reading
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Ces derniers mois, le projet « Bassins versants l’oreille fluante » m’a fait longer et d’écouter moult cours d’eau, petits et grands, bouillonnants ou étales. Je le... Keep reading
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Precarious Office was a promenade performance that took place earlier this year in Macau. I designed a walking route through the city which started on the southern ... Keep reading
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Latest videos
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At the start of Sound Walk September 2024, meet Ed Coulson, make of Headford Lace Trail and Dawn matheson producer of Semi-Colon (How to Draw a Tree), the Sound Walk September Award winners from 2023, in conversation about everything sound walks. Keep reading
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Stuff we found
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After 14 years, it’s time to leave the woods and fields that have meant so much to me. I know I’ll see my friends again – but what about the spot where I first saw ... Keep reading
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